Heaters {electric heat}| can use Nichrome wire to resist electric current flow and make heat.
Blankets {electric blanket}| can have thin insulated-wire networks. Wires are Nichrome.
Bread browners {toaster}| have Nichrome wire on sides, sometimes wound around thin mica sheets. Lowering toast starts electric current. Timer or thermostat holds toast down, until reaching time or temperature. Spring pops toast.
Nichrome heating elements have iron base and iron top, to toast both waffle sides {waffle iron}|.
Ovens {electric oven}| {oven, cooking} can have heating coils, or high-resistance conductors surrounded by insulators surrounded by metal, on bottom and at top {broiler, oven}. Electric-range burners use high-resistance conductor, surrounded by insulator, surrounded by metal, in a flat spiral.
drying, firing, or hardening oven {kiln}.
Irons {iron, steam} {steam iron}| can have a water tank with small holes. Water drips onto soleplate top to make steam, which comes out soleplate holes to wet and then dry clothes, so they appear smooth.
Irons have a heated flat bottom {soleplate}|.
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